Obama Is the Most Pro-Abortion Candidate Ever (Obama Believes in
Infanticide.)
CNSnews ^ | January 09, 2008 | Terence P. Jeffrey
 
 

Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever.

He is so pro-abortion that he refused as an Illinois state senator to
support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term
abortions because he did not want to concede -- as he explained in a
cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor -- that these
babies, fully outside their mothers' wombs, with their hearts beating
and lungs heaving, were in fact "persons."

"Persons," of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law
under the 14th Amendment.

In 2004, U.S. Senate-candidate Obama mischaracterized his opposition
to this legislation. Now, as a presidential frontrunner, he should be
held accountable for what he actually said and did about the Born
Alive Infants Bill.

State and federal versions of this bill became an issue earlier this
decade because of "induced labor abortion." This is usually performed
on a baby with Down's Syndrome or another problem discovered on the
cusp of viability. A doctor medicates the mother to cause premature
labor. Babies surviving labor are left untreated to die.

Jill Stanek, who was a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill.,
testified in the U.S. Congress in 2000 and 2001 about how "induced
labor abortions" were handled at her hospital.

"One night," she said in testimony entered into the Congressional
Record, "a nursing co-worker was taking an aborted Down's Syndrome
baby who was born alive to our Soiled Utility Room because his
parents did not want to hold him, and she did not have the time to
hold him. I couldn't bear the thought of this suffering child lying
alone in a Soiled Utility Room, so I cradled and rocked him for the
45 minutes that he lived."

In 2001, Illinois state Sen. Patrick O'Malley introduced three bills
to help such babies. One required a second physician to be present at
the abortion to determine if a surviving baby was viable. Another
gave the parents or a public guardian the right to sue to protect the
baby's rights. A third, almost identical to the federal Born Alive
Infant Protection Act President Bush signed in 2002, simply said a
"homo sapiens" wholly emerged from his mother with a "beating heart,
pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary
muscles" should be treated as a "'person,' 'human being,' 'child' and
'individual.'"

Stanek testified about these bills in the Illinois Senate Judiciary
Committee, where Obama served. She told me this week he was "unfazed"
by her story of holding the baby who survived an induced labor abortion.

On the Illinois Senate floor, Obama was the only senator to speak
against the baby-protecting bills. He voted "present" on each,
effectively the same as a "no."

"Number one," said Obama, explaining his reluctance to protect born
infants, "whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is
protected by the Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the
Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are
persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be
provided to a -- a child, a 9-month old -- child that was delivered
to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by
a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it -- it would
essentially bar abortions, because the Equal Protection Clause does
not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this
would be an anti-abortion statute."

That June, the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of the Born Alive
Infants Protection Act (although it failed to become law that year).
Pro-abortion Democrats supported it because this language was added:
"Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand
or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member
of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being born alive as
defined in this section."

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer explained that with this language the
"amendment certainly does not attack Roe v. Wade."

On July 18, 2002, Democratic Sen. Harry Reid called for the bill to
be approved by unanimous consent. It was.

That same year, the Illinois version of the bill came up again. Obama
voted "no."

In 2003, Democrats took control of the Illinois Senate. Obama became
chairman of the Health and Human Services committee. The Born Alive
Infant bill, now sponsored by Sen. Richard Winkel, was referred to
this committee. Winkel also sponsored an amendment to make the
Illinois bill identical to the federal law, adding -- word for word
-- the language Barbara Boxer said protected Roe v. Wade. Obama still
held the bill hostage in his committee, never calling a vote so it
could be sent to the full senate.

A year later, when Republican U.S. senate candidate Alan Keyes
challenged Obama in a debate for his opposition to the Born Alive
Infant Bill, Obama said: "At the federal level there was a similar
bill that passed because it had an amendment saying this does not
encroach on Roe v. Wade. I would have voted for that bill."

In fact, Obama had personally killed exactly that bill.